CINDER

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.

2.
n.

A hot coal without flame; an ember. Swift.

3.
n.

A scale thrown off in forging metal.

4.
n.

The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano. Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.


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